Sagen Sie mir, warum diese Tomatenpflanze, die zufällig auf unserer beschissenen alten Terrasse gewachsen ist, besser als meine gut besuchte, absichtlich gepflanzte Tomatenpflanze?
Ignoriere meine Hunde "Babys" dass er nach draußen gelassen wurde, um weg zu verdorren.
Von: grimcoconut
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Tomatoes are the Cats of the gardening world
Because you aren’t babying it. A neglected plant tends to do well compared to one that is babied. Not to say you should do nothing, but in moderation.
Seed grown tomatoes are so much more hardy
I used to find volunteer Cherry tomato plants growing under citrus trees when I used to work in the citrus groves in Florida.
How’d they get there? Well, the citrus growers would use sewage sludge as a soil amendment. The tomato seeds went through the entire sewage plant process and were still viable.
What purpose is that plastic tarp serving that mulch couldnt accomplish?
Edit: ok so they are concrete blocks, which is still really confusing and I’m not sure why the question warrants downvotes..
Nature finds a way
How come I was waiting for my seeds to grow at work, ignored and forgot about the pot, only to come back and see my coworkers use it as an ashtray, only to later see the biggest bushel of green stems poking out? Like wut?
Maybe your dog is better at fertilizing its tomato plant than you are 🙂
I think it’s because the ones that survived are just so incredibly hardy lol
One year I had a volunteer plant grow out of between pavers in the driveway that produced about 20 lbs of cherry tomatoes during the season. By comparison, my carefully babied plants gave me a total of 5 tomatoes.
Actual answers?
1. It has no competition
2. The gaps between the stones channel rainfall to the plant.
3. It was able to grow its taproot freely and without obstacle after sprouting https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/comments/1b8iuq6/comment/ktpqign/
4. Tomatoes like heat, and those pavers actually reflect a degree of light back up to the plant and keep temperatures warmer overnight.
It’s not an ideal place grow tomatoes, but obviously a decent place for a volunteer to pop up. 🍅
Most people water tomato’s too much and they don’t understand why it’s bad. I’m guessing that has some influence on your situation and this tomato in the crack grew a stronger root foundation to survive searching for water, establishing itself super deep etc. as opposed to someone who waters their tomatoes every other day or more, making the tomato weak since it was spoon fed everything it neede
I wonder if something in the soil is being lost when we till because all the comments are telling me that tomatoes like undisturbed soil the best.
The volunteer tomatoes I had come up this year (a variety I hadn’t planned to grow again) have outperformed every other plant in my garden. SMH, but free food, I guess, so it’s hard to complain.
Reminds me of my Raspberry patch. It gets thinned out watered well and fertilized. But the canes growing over in the rocks are massive with boatloads of berries compared to the rest of the patch.
That’s just like my sunflowers this year..the ones I planted and watered are scraggly excuses for sunflowers but the one that came up in a crack in the asphalt driveway from leftover birdseed is a gloriously healthy, huge sunflower. Go figure.
These places maybe more ideal than some people think. It’s also possible, though, that this plant is not the same as other tomatoes you have grown. Whatever it’s parentage, it might have been better equipped genetically to grow than the other varieties you have. Tomatoes can be pretty fussy.
He left them out to wither away 😂😂
This resonates with me. I grew a plant from a cutting of an established plant – first time. I put in water to grow roots. Put it in the raised bed and just ignored it besides watering and fertilizing and It already has two tomatoes on it!
The best tomato plant I ever had was one that I didn’t plant. It grew where the sink grey water drained under a semi -trailer that was set up for camping. In the shade, constant drip from the sink. It was the biggest sprawling vine I ever saw. Must have come from slicing tomatoes inside the trailer and some of the seeds went out the drain. I’m talking washing dishes with soapy water and everything. Self composting and watering with soapy bug spray water all came together to make it perfect. I was surprised it was in total shade except for a few sun blotches. It may have helped that it was 90 degrees out.
Volunteers are more reliable than forced labor…
How awesome is that
G.M.O. is easier to grow than heirloom varieties.
Side note, but I worked on a farm during the summer in one of the most humid states in the US. Not seeing powdery mildew on a tomato plant is like seeing the Messiah. They’re beautiful!
This is now a seed that is happy and evolved in your climate. I would save the seeds from that tomato for next year 💯
Same. I have more tomatoes on an extra plant I couldn’t fit in the raised beds and threw it in a pot. It’s not even properly supported because there’s not enough soil to hold the stakes. Yet. It’s covered in tomato’s and none seem to have root rot like my other plants. Sigh. I planted 2 bell peppers that disappeared completely and the jalapeño plant is only now starting to flower since I pulled out the cantaloupe that was blocking light. 😐